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14-JUL-1993 14:41
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MR ALASTAIR GOODLAD
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SELECT COMMITTEE 14 JULY 93
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SIR ROBIN MCLAREN:
I think, Chairman, as the Minister said, there are a large number
of ethnic minority races in China, mostly, but not all, living
around the edges of China, on the border areas, and those are all
full Chinese citizens. So although normally the Chinese
nationality appears to be ethnically based, nonetheless the
Chinese themselves do make exceptions and there are individual
cases of foreigners who have been living in Peking for many many
years who have taken Chinese nationality, for example.
So there
is no bar on non-ethnic Chinese taking on Chinese nationality
under Chinese nationality law, it is not automatic, it is not
necessarily easy unless you are an ethnic minority living in
China, a recognised one of the between 40 50 minorities who are
living there, but it happens.
MR WARING:
We all hope that between now and 1997 there will be an
accommodation with the Chinese government and indeed it will be
easier for the handover if we can be assured that human rights
will exist in Hong Kong. But nevertheless I get very worried
about those people, not only British dependent territory citizens
but also Chinese people who live in Hong Kong, about what will
happen to them in the light of their dissension, which many of
them showed very stridently after the events in Tiananmen Square.
When I was there in 1989, it was after Tiananmen Square that I
went, the many groups who met me were pressing upon me the need
for Britain to provide passports, not necessarily because they
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